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Looking beyond smart cities
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
This project is no longer active, but has been rolled over into MIT RAISE and Day of AI's free curriculum for ages 11 to 18.How to Train Yo…
The project is no longer active, and has been rolled over into MIT RAISE and Day of AI's free curriculum for ages 5-7 and 8-10.This Primary…
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Ila Kumar explores how youth-centered digital spaces can support mental health, voice, and well-being beyond clinical settings.
People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
Andrew Sliwinski, Lego Education’s head of product experience, discusses why young kids need to learn how AI models work.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
OctoStudio joins a National Geographic Society to offer creative coding activities for observing and understanding the natural world.
Mitch Resnick and other experts talk to senior reporter Holly Baxter about the skills that kids will need as AI reshapes modern society.
Join MIT Professor Mitchel Resnick of the Lifelong Kindergarten research group to explore new technologies, activities, and strategies for …
OctoStudio is available for free at octostudio.orgOctoStudio is a free creative coding app that lets you create animations, games, and…
The 2025 Technology Leadership Circle builds on the momentum of the 2024 Fostering Futures Forum, an event co-hosted with Foster America at…
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
The underrepresentation of minoritized groups, particularly African Americans, is the longstanding reality of computing fields. Computing h…
Over 600,000 youth in the United States experience abuse or neglect each year. Youth who are deemed to be at risk of significant harm in th…
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
Scratch Software, developed by Lifelong Kindergarten group, wins the Advanced Education Award in Tokyo.
Enhancing human physical capability
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
Mitchel Resnick receives the 2025 Stibitz-Wilson Award for innovation in creative learning.
Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots research group, has been named to the inaugural TIME100 AI list in the 2025 Thinkers category.
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Little Language Models is a co-creative AI education microworld for children (ages 8–16) within the CoCo platform. It is especially de…
Doodlebot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware, so…
A new collab with the MIT Center for Constructive Communication empowers young people to shape the future of journalism and civic dialogue
Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…
The March 2025 cover story for Science Robotics highlights a recent study conducted by researchers in the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group.
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
Code Next : Cultural Resonation
Foundations (2015 - 2016): The Year 1 MIT/Google collaboration program has Pilot Labs in NYC and Oakland. In the Labs, we introduce a cohor…
Team Edge (2016 - 2017): The Year 2 MIT/Google Collaboration. For it, we design and author Curricula and Learning Activities in the followi…
My name is Raechel Walker. I'm a PhD student in the Personal Robots group. Here is a short description of my Data Activism Program:The Data…
The contributions spotlighted aim to get kids excited about, and more proficient in, STEM.
Selected proposals seek to develop positive alternative visions for the future of algorithmic systems and their research communities.
The three-day, hands-on conference hosted by the MIT RAISE Initiative welcomed youths and adults from nearly 30 countries.
App Inventor is an intuitive, visual programming environment that allows everyone, even those with no prior coding experience, to build ful…
Their awards aim to support and prepare students to navigate the changing world.
In EdSurge, Media Lab alum Elliott Hedman and other experts call on edtech companies to pay more attention to their end users—children
In Success Magazine, Professor Cynthia Breazeal talks about how people can use AI technologies to enhance human abilities.
Find out more about the new version of the system, "The Thinking Cap 2.0" here.Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own int…
An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…
MaKey MaKey lets you transform everyday objects into computer interfaces. Make a game pad out of Play-Doh, a musical instrument out of bana…
Today’s artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are changing how many people play, work, learn, and govern themselves. Due to this rapid …
The new Center will provide music education to students across North Texas, in cooperation with the Media Lab's Opera of the Future group.
The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…
Today's children will live in a world saturated with artificial intelligence. Understanding the key idea behind the functioning of intellig…
Mayor’s youth employment program brought local high schoolers to MIT this summer.
Social robots equipped with AI and designed with users’ social, emotional, and relational interactions in mind are increasingly being highl…
Created by Media Lab PhD students Shruti Dhariwal and Manuj Dhariwal, CoCo is a digital learning platform that fosters collaboration.
On an episode of the Unpacking Education podcast, Randi Williams (a PhD student in the Personal Robots research group) talks Day of AI.
Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots research group, talks to Education Week about early opportunities for AI literacy.
Randi Williams, who is a PhD student in the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group, joins other talented scientists to talk about their careers.
“The work I’m doing is deeply rooted in the belief that you can plant seeds in people,” says graduate student Cecilé Sadler.
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Global participation in MIT RAISE’s free K-12 program more than doubles in its second year.
Media Lab PhD students Manuj Dhariwal + Shruti Dhariwal introduce a new paradigm of creative collaboration in digital learning environments
View photos from the Day of AI event this year, which happened on May 18.
This event congregated a community of educators around the world to celebrate and share class content using the Day of AI curriculum.
Scratch Mondays is an initiative to share the Scratch Day spirit to schools in Brazil. After having a big Scratch Day event in 2018 i…
